<p>I was talking to some grad students from tamu and a couple of them told me that event tho TAMUs in the top 10 in AE it is not as well known as the other top 10s and job offers outside TX may be limited for TAMu grads.</p>
<p>Is anyone here familiar with this? How true is the above?</p>
<p>Like all State public schools, it’s far more know in it’s region (as this is where most of your alumni network would be located). I guess your question is really how does TAMU compare to the other schools in the top 10 (grad schools).</p>
<p>These include Call Tech, MIT, Stanford, U Mich, Georgia Tech, Purdue, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, UT-Austin and Princeton. Outside of Texas, TAMU is competitive with some(UT-Austin), but simply not as well know, as MIT, Stanford, U Mich, etc.</p>
<p>My biggest concern is getting a job. I may goto tamu for grad school, but I’m worried that if I goto a state like Cali with a PhD or MS from TAMU, then I may not be of high profile enough. Idk if that makes sense.</p>
<p>Well, I know of it. I imagine most STEM people know of it.</p>
<p>Probably 50% to 75% of my former fellow graduate students here are working out of state, for what it’s worth. A lot of them are in Southern California or the Albuquerque area (Sandia), though there are certainly other places as well.</p>
<p>TAMU has popped into our short list of graduate architecture schools because of its good reputation and alarmingly large architecture department (everything’s big in Texas and all that but we’re not talking merely big). As hiring is regional and we’re in the Midwest, it’s not like we have anyone from TAMU at work, but 99% of us (engineers tho) are from the Big 10 anyway so…</p>
<p>Typically we’ve had good luck with large state flagship type engineering schools regardless of region…</p>
<p>I guess I’ll add that I am in aerospace. We seem to send most graduates to other regions.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I’ve heard stories of other departments that don’t send many graduates out of state. Apparently with most employers, these departments have a good reputation but also a reputation for having graduates that don’t want to leave the state, so the out of state companies don’t recruit as hard. Civil engineering is one that I’ve heard that about.</p>
<p>Well, if you have to go to a regional school, something in Texas is definitely going to be your best bet just because the economy is very strong there. I know of TAMU but I post here regularly so I’m probably not your best sample. It’s obviously not as well known as UT-Austin, but it’s probably going to be the next most well known public school in Texas.</p>
<p>I am considering TAMU for grad school, however, I cannot imagine myself living in TX after I graduate. It’s not my kind of place. </p>
<p>Boneh3ad, for the aero department, do aero graduates find jobs in states like Cali pretty easily? What usually gives graduates a hard time when it comes to finding jobs from your experience?</p>
<p>Turbo93, which company do you work for?</p>
<p>I work for a consumer electronics company located somewhere in the Midwest :). We’re mostly Big 10 esp Purdue, UIUC, U Michigan, and OSU with the occasional private, east, or west coast hire.</p>
<p>We recruit in California, south, and east, but by and large most of our employees are big 10 or nearby. The rust belt is not an exciting place for young folks I’m afraid.</p>
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<p>Did you read my previous post? Most of the aerospace graduates that I know work outside of Texas with California having the plurality. Albuquerque is a close second given the number of my friends who have gone to work for Sandia.</p>
<p>I live in California and have worked aerospace. I don’t know why someone from TAMU would be at a disadvantage here.</p>
<p>Unless an very experienced engineer has only worked in “think tank” type of jobs where only certain schools are selected, that experienced engineer has worked with or know someone from many “state flagships” (or the 2nd in line of that state) schools.</p>
<p>I knew about Texas A&M and engineering since I was in high school…and only been to Texas once in my life. Everybody knows that school.</p>